Schloss Hollenburg

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The Hollenburg in Carinthia

The Hollenburg castle is a broad hilltop castle in the Rosental valley on the rocky southern slope of the Sattnitz the river Drava. The property is located in the present-day municipality of Köttmannsdorf, KG Hollenburg.

History

The Hollenburg is probably at the site of the documented 860 and 876 mentioned curtis ad Trahoven. The present castle was probably built in the 1100s by ministeriales the Margrave of Styria, for the year 1142, a family of Hollenburger is documentary evidence. When the traffic route has been expanded over the Loiblpass in the 13th century, took the castle of strategic importance. The owners of the Hollenburg ( including the Pettauer and Stubenberger ) then came on the one hand and over again in dispute with the pen Viktring occurred on the other hand again as the donor of the same, so as for the major Gothic stained glass windows of the church.

The earthquake in 1348, the castle was partially destroyed and was rebuilt again immediately. For the year 1349 the Hollenburg is documented as the seat of a country judge.

Emperor Maximilian I sold the castle in 1514 to Siegmund von Dietrich stone and declared it to the barony. The Dietrichsteiner could expand to its present representative form of the castle in the 16th and 17th centuries. In 1861 died the last male descendant of the Ditrichsteins the Hollenburg first came to the family Maresch -Wittgenstein and finally into the possession of the family Kyrle.

Specifications

The irregular shape of today's system is still due to the course of the medieval Bering. The north side entrance to the castle is by a mid 17th century gate tower built with stepped gables and an elongated and covered walkway over a moat. Slope side, the castle is unadorned, the downhill side, it has several designed in the Renaissance style twin window.

Built in the 14th and 15th century palace is located in the eastern part of the castle. In the east wing are facing courtyard double storey Renaissance arcades ( 1558 ), in the opposite yard a wooden gallery. Are the arms of the Dietrichsteinplatz - Rottalblick of 1529 and the great arms of alliance Dietrichsteinplatz - Starhemberg On the west wall and two pillars of the upper portico. Above the doors were some Lutheran sense and Bible verses, dating from 1581, and annual figures from the period 1516-1588, relating to the construction attached. In the castle courtyard reliefs and inscriptions, see Roman period tombs.

The chapel of St. Nicholas is located on the ground floor of the east wing. It was supposedly named in 1348 for the first time, a second consecration occurred 1684th The walls of the building are provided with paintings, including a series of frescoes from the second half of the 14th century.